Verno wrote on Mar 16, 2015, 10:16:Finally got around to Interstellar last night and was happy to see outside of a few stupid moments and some Hollywoodisms that it lived up to the hype. The movie was almost 3 hours long but I didn't really mind. I remember reading complaints about complexity when it come out but I thought It was much more approachable than Inception which was an unnecessarily dense movie for such a simple plot.

I enjoyed Interstellar although it really jumped ship once they decided to turn Matt Damon in to a Bond villain. Not the best movie I've ever seen but it definitely gave me something to look forward to in this recent drought of even 'okay' movies where the amount of good movies compared to the amount of awful movies I've seen in the past several months is definitely one-sided with no chance to balance it in sight.

Can anyone recommend better options to watch US/UK Netflix from Canada? I've tried Hola and ZenMate but they're both incredibly shitty when it comes to offering a consistent uptime and ZenMate just absolutely destroys my browsing speed on top of it. I don't just mean slowness in general but there are often times when there is absolutely no activity for 30 seconds or more.

Flatline wrote on Mar 13, 2015, 18:09:Out of curiosity, is Borderlands Pre-Sequel worth the 30 bucks that it goes for occasionally? I'm kind of burned out on borderlands at this point, and have been waiting for a deep Far Cry 4 sale moreso, but a mindless shoot-em-up either way would be fun.

From my understanding, it's not as good as Borderlands 2 and might be the weakest entry in the series as far as story and location are concerned. If you're burned out on Borderlands, I don't think TPS will provide you with any kind of second-wind even if it has more Handsome Jack. It seems like it should have been DLC and then they just blew it up to a fully-fledged title without properly addressing the size in regards to content and polish.

I've always been on the fence about buying KF, even when it went on sale for 5$ but I have been really impressed with what they've been doing with the sequel. Even their plot-hole ridden kind-of-awful-live-action Killing Floor mini-episode was entertaining.

I remember a swatting incident took place with a streamer and the cops discovered his pot stash of up to 500 grams or some such thing. Sucks to be that guy. There was another incident where a Counter Strike streamer got swatted, and caught it on camera. Hard to tell if there was a no-knock warrant but it didn't take them long to breach the door and come in guns drawn and shouting orders.

Can't really blame the cops though. If they get a tip that someone has a bomb and will be using it to blow up a school or some shit, I'd rather have them act on that information than discredit it or wait and see what happens. Just recently, the cops foiled a plan by three teenagers who wanted to shoot up the Halifax Shopping Center and it was brought to their attention by a single tip-off.

I'm pretty god damn excited about what Alan Tudyk is doing. 140% funded with 30 days left. I'd rather see this break crowd-funding records than that stupid card game.

Also, isn't the HBO platform going live this month with options outside of Apple shortly after? I haven't paid much attention to the news about it, just blurbs, but it'd come out to be the same as if I bought the package through Shaw but with the benefit of free range over their library. Game of Thrones having a simultaneous worldwide release helps it too as far as availability outside of the torrent world.

Even if I wanted to play it, I get a BSOD without any text about ten minutes in to playing it which only sprang up after the second update. Can play any other game just fine and my processor tops out at 46c while being Primed so I doubt it's that.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 10, 2015, 17:12:Been 30 years since a good Thing movie came out. One of the greatest horror movies ever, so if this comes close, that's not a bad thing.

The way I see it is that the move to the digital age with CGI out the ass has essentially killed the alien/creature feature horror genre because they look like shit, the sets aren't organic, and devolve in to over-the-top closing acts to compensate for a poor story payoff.

I'm fearful of what the next Alien film will be like, even with Neil Blomkamp helming it. All I can picture are shitty looking Xenos which totally remove me from the film and make me want to cry on H.R. Giger's behalf.

ForgedReality wrote on Mar 10, 2015, 13:23:I think this game has more reloading in it than any game I've ever seen. Holy crap. I swear, the guy playing reloads like every 3.7 seconds.

I generally suffer from this when I play an FPS. Even if I am only down a handful of bullets and have a ton left in my magazine, I'll always reload after an engagement. It's especially annoying when you have a heavy weapon or one with a belt/box...